Geithner, Carstens, Leipold's Own Words on Lagarde, IMF

June 28 (Bloomberg) -- US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Mexican Central Bank President Agustin Carstens and Alessandro Leipold, a former acting director of the International Monetary Fund's European department, offer their views on French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde and her selection as the next managing director of the IMF. Lagarde will begin her five-year term as the first female head of the fund on July 5. This report also contains comments from Lagarde, Eswar Prasad, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and David Hawley, a spokesman at the IMF. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Ah, the perils of European power politics. A day after France revealed its new government, the person who so eagerly stepped in after DSK's infamous and choreographed fall from grace and the IMF presidency (not to mention his derailed French presidential ambitions, greenlighting Hollande as what would become the worst French president ever), Christine Lagarde is about to be DSKed herself after "someone" clearly has set their sights on the former French finance minister.